Type-distributing apparatus.



No. 666,323. Patented Jan. 22, l90l.

A. A. LOW 81. J. BREAKEY.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

(Application filed June 16, 1900.)

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ABBO'I AUGUSTUS. LOW AND JAMES BREAKEY, OF NE\/V YORK, N. Y., AS- SIGNORS TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE=DISTR|BUTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,323, dated January 22, 1901.

Application filed June 16, 1900. Serial No. 20,509. (No model.)

To (0Z7. whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low and J AMES BREAKEY, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Distributing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to mechanism for controlling the transfer of types from one channel to another, and is designed for use in automatic type-distributing apparatus of the class known as the Alden. The essential features of this class of apparatus are fully set forth in Letters Patent No. 212,503, issued to A. C. Richards February 18, 1879, and No. 245,562, issued to T. Reeve August 9, 1881.

Our present invention relates more particularly to the means of receiving a type from the lifting-latches and transferring it to the individual channel in the conical channelholder; and the invention consists,essentially, in the interposition of what we designate an intermediate channel between the latchpiece and the permanent channel in the conical holder, theobject being to preserve the alinement of the type during transmission by preventing both lateral and longitudinal movement of the type, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings we show only sufficient of the apparatus to illustrate the invention, the other parts of the apparatus being of well-known form and construction and the operation of the apparatus as a whole being essentially the same as in the patents hereinbefore referred to. In this connection reference'may also be had to the patent of A. A. Low, issued May 29, 1900, No. 650,405, in which the individual channels are shown as used in conjunction with a vertical guidechannel in contradistinction to the patents to Richards and Reeve, hereinbefore referred to, in which a horizontal channel or feed is shown, the present invention being adaptable to either form of feed.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of a portion of the lower section of the channel-holder, showing three of our intermediate channels in position. Fig. 2 isa section upon plane of line 2 2, Fig. I. Fig. 3 isasimilar view showing the types in the intermediate channel. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of our intermediate channels; Fig. 5, a top view, and Fig. 6 a bottom view, of an intermediate channel.

T represents the lower extremity of one of the transfer-channels for use in the setting apparatus, said transfer-channel T being arranged aud supported in the distributing apparatus, as set forth in said prior patents.

I represents intermediate channels interposed between the lower extremity of the transfer-channels T and the upper extremity of the latch-channel L, into which project the lateral latches l, the same being constructed and operating in the identical manner set forth in said prior patents. The latch-holders L are secured to the stationary ring or frame L while the intermediate channels I fit into grooves j in the back plate A, the lower edges of the side walls of the intermediate channel resting upon the shoulders Z upon the latch-holders L, while the rear edge or spine of said intermediate channel rests upon the shoulder Z upon the ring L Our intermediate channel I has a frontal extension t", which projects down over the latch-channel L, and thereby guides and holds thetype against longitudinal displacement.

The sidewalls of the intermediate channel I are recessed or slotted, as at I, (preferably at or near the top of the channel,) to give access to the types, if necessary, by means of the fingers or otherwise.

In operation the types are raised by a lifter into the latch-channelL, above the latches I, as set forth in the patent to Low hereinbefore referred to, the patents to Reeve and to Richards before cited, or in the concurrent application filled by A. A. Low.

By the use of the intermediate channel I we are enabled to isolate and protect the types in the latch-channel Lby means of the frontal extension, which could not be formed with the transfer-channel T, since it would interfere with their use in the setting appara tus. The lifters have heretofore had a tendency to throw out or disturb the types in the latch-channel by reason of their quickness of movement and overthrust, an objectionable feature which We effectually c0unteract by the means herein set forth.

WVhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In type-distributingapparatusofthetype herein designated, the combination with the latch-channel and with the transfer-channel, of an intermediate channel interposed be tween thetn formed with a frontal guard for confining and protecting the type Within the latch-channel substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. In tyi )e-distributing apparatus substantially as herein designated, the combination with a latch-channel L, and with a transferchannel T, of an intermediate channel I, formed with a frontal guard t, and with the stantially in the manner and for the purpose 30 set forth.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW. JAMES BREAKEY. Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. MIATT. 

